Social Movement Technologies
Demos of Outstanding Tools for Digital Organizing – a series

Register here for May 11, 1pm EST Free session

This is the first of an occasional series in which we explore tools that many organizing groups are finding useful, that provide a lot of value for cost, that are in many ways “best in their class,” and that have demonstrated a commitment to be accessible to even small-budget groups.*

With thousands of digital tools out there and more being developed all the time, SMT’s goal is to draw organizers’ attention just to those that we think are really valuable for organizing. SMT also seeks to negotiate reduced prices on these tools for smaller groups.

In this session expect demos and campaign examples from:

New/Mode

To reach decision-makers and win campaigns with tactics including click-to-call, tweetstorms, petitions, letters to the editor, and more.
Sample actions: Warren Democrats using click-to-call & tweetstorm.
People’s Bailout using click-to-callemail, and LTE.
Cost: A special pricing plan has been developed for small groups that are Tools4All Coop members

Soapboxx

To crowdsource and share video content
A member of the team at Color of Change will share how COC is using this tool.
Additional examples: Committee to Protect Medicare, Citizen Action of NY
Cost: This tool is being offered at “whatever a group can afford” over at least the coming year.

We’ll also share information on SMT’s “Tools4All” Coop as way to access important digital organizing tools at significant discounts.

Information about these tools for multilingual organizing and organizing in different regions of the world

If English is not your first language: this session will be recorded and captioned in 7 languages (English, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, French, Bahasa, Portuguese).

New/Mode’s platform is available in 20 languages. It currently has legislator datasets for the US, Canada, the UK, EU, and Australia.

Soapboxx’s platform is available in Spanish and English. The support team is bilingual English/Spanish

Register here for May 11, 1pm EST Free session 

*In order to avoid any conflicts of interest, SMT accepts absolutely no compensation or rewards of any kind from any companies or tool providers. SMT maintains an arms-length relationship with all tool providers to ensure an objective and unbiased evaluation for movement organizations.

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The Digital Campaigning Certificate Program was immensely helpful, and I continue to apply its learnings in my daily communications and strategizing.
Learned invaluable skills, gained practical knowledge, and connected with inspiring professionals.
Working with SMT was easy and collaborative. The training helped our Greenpeace Southeast Asia team get new insights into campaign best practices across the globe.
Our staff took a lot of SMT courses – including the intensive Digital Campaigning Certificate Program. It helped us take our digital campaigning and collectivizing actions to the next level! We used various tools to increase our follower base and successfully target authorities to take action at the village and municipal levels in India.

The course provided invaluable tools and strategies, real-world case studies from different cultural contexts, and a supportive learning environment that encouraged interaction and peer learning.
The SMT trainings I’ve taken have helped us mobilize and deepen engagement in our communities. Through Twitterstorms, phone banking, and other tactics that I learned through SMT’s trainings, we succeeded in our call to #ExtendtheReg for a million young people who would otherwise be disenfranchised by anti-poor COVID policies.

I received input on how to align field and digital work which is directly connected to the advocacy research that we are doing.
Having access to experts through the certificate program was amazing. The course is so practical. I set up google ads for the first time and created our digital security policy and implementation plan. Our whole team uses the campaign strategy template now. Now we know how to improve our email deliverability and started a texting program.
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